Principal: Mr Peter Hickey Vere Street South Grafton NSW 2460 T: 02 6642 3388 F: 02 6643 2065

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South Grafton Public School Newsletter

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Term 4 Week 6 Thursday 22nd November 2018

Principal’s Report Congratulations to all our wonderful PPP students and their families on the excellent Graduation Assembly held on Tuesday at our Infants campus. We had a fantastic attendance from our community and we all agreed on the excellent quality of the transition to kindergarten program we run at our school. Our PPP students all received a graduation certificate to celebrate their excellent efforts throughout this program.

Our Year 6 students had a wonderful excursion to Sydney last week. They participated in a number of exciting activities including the Sydney Harbour Bridge Walk, NSW Parliament House, Powerhouse Museum, the Sydney Aquarium, Taronga Zoo and Cockatoo Island. We followed the week on our Facebook page and our staff and students certainly looked like they were having a great time. A big thank you to Mr Zacek, Mrs McIntyre, Mr Newman, Mrs Pope and Mrs Warren for supervising this excursion. We would also like to thank Northland Buses for providing safe travel and an excellent itinerary for our school.

Reminder to all our Year 5 students who have nominated to become a prefect for next year that the official speeches are to be held tomorrow, Friday 23rd November in our Primary hall beginning at 11.40am. Parents are invited to attend. We value highly our student leadership program at our school and I would like to wish all our prospective prefects and captains all the very best with these speeches.

Principal: Mr Peter Hickey Vere Street South Grafton NSW 2460 T: 02 6642 3388 F: 02 6643 2065

sthgrafton-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au

Inspiring Excellence through PRIDE www.sthgrafton-p.schools.nsw.edu.au

Our students in Year 3 and 4 who had nominated have enjoyed an excellent first week participating in the Intensive Swim Program held at the Grafton Pool. Mrs McGrath has mentioned how our students are trying their very best and displaying excellent behaviour while representing our school at this activity. The capacity of all students to swim to a competent level is very important living in Australia where so many of our leisure activities are held on the waterways. When this program is finished it is important that families involved do their very best to follow up these swimming lessons. We have just ordered additional new modern furniture for all our Stage 3 classes which will be available early next year. This will mean we only have our Stage 2 classes to upgrade across our school. This is an excellent achievement and allows are staff and students to use the very best available furniture in their classrooms. We are hoping to upgrade Stage 2 by the middle of next year.

We are holding our Annual ‘Carols on the Green’ on Wednesday 5th December on our Primary campus beginning at 6.00pm and concluding at 8.00pm. All students will have the opportunity to perform. This is a fantastic evening for our community and we are looking forward to another large attendance. Our P&C will be providing a BBQ, hot chips, drinks, ice cream and face painting. Children can sit with their families on a rug and everyone is encouraged to wear Christmas clothes. In Week 8 we will be holding two Silver Badge morning teas to celebrate our outstanding students who have reached this level. Primary will be held on Wednesday 5th December and Infants will be held on Thursday 6th December. Our Gold Badge morning teas will be Monday 10th December Infants and Tuesday 11th December Primary. Have a great week Mr Peter Hickey Principal

The P&C are holding a Christmas Hamper Raffle to be drawn at the Carols on the Green. Thank you to our families who have donated items, if anyone else would like to donate any Christmas themed non-perishable food items they can be left at either office. Thanks for your support. More information contact Kelly Vickers on 0419 162 075. Raffle tickets are going home today. Please return sold or unsold tickets to school by Wednesday 5th December as it is being drawn at the Carols on the Green.

As the year is quickly drawing to a close we have our end of year Library Stocktake almost upon us! To prepare for this we need to return all library books so that they can be scanned. Library borrowing has concluded and all students need to return their books by the end of this week, Friday 23rd November please. Stocktake will occur next week, so the library will be closed in this week, with the exception of students wishing to return books. Library will re-open in Week 8. Thank you, Mrs Heyman

The last day to order Rewards for student banking is next Tuesday 27th November and the last student banking day for this year is Tuesday 11th December.

Scholastic Bookclub Issue 8 will be sent home with students today. Orders (online only) will close at 3.00pm on Thursday 29th November. This will be the last Bookclub for the year.

Library News

P&C News

School student banking

Scholastic Bookclub - Issue 8

Principal: Mr Peter Hickey Vere Street South Grafton NSW 2460 T: 02 6642 3388 F: 02 6643 2065

sthgrafton-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au

Inspiring Excellence through PRIDE www.sthgrafton-p.schools.nsw.edu.au

Students of the Week Award KAO Kaliyah R KRB Taygen Walker KDR Liam Slater KDM Jaiden Skinner 1KG Charlotte Hughes 1BK Siilus Williamson 1CK Braithen De Bono 1/2KW Lilly Axford 2MA Charlotte Reeve 2TJ Seinna Davey 2LS Jacob Hawkins 3MM Lucy Warwck 3/4TA Noah Reid 3JD Bridgette Tough 4ES Mia Jerrett 4JR Melinda Pearson 4DM Nikki Truman 5SD William Cameron 5LG Neva Stevens 5/6TC Isabelle Campbell 5WC Andrea Thomson 5/6AP Rhys Berry 6DZ Jorja Keating 6TM Shyanne Martin 6DZ Samuel Wratten Principal Awards Flynn Street, Hunter Kroehnert, Maddison Selby, Kayne O’Neill, Nayte Meyer, Grace Shorrock, Mylie Wall, Logan McGrath, Ava Cable, Sarah Finlay, Darby Rouse, Riley Lolic, Mathew Wilson, Hobie Gaddes, Cassidi Hallam, Blue Ribbons Dexter McMahon, Seth Anderson, Kaleb Mahey, Arafura Elliott Miles, Ethan Brierley Pride Awards Indiana Kroehnert, Jordan Polson, Willow Eggleton, Nova-Rose Filippa, Jaylah Hickling, Indy Loy, Molly Barton, Priya Austen, Yirrili Williams, Quinn Tattis, Blake Howard, Cienna Barker, Dylan Edwards, Jack Kells, Isabella Roughley, Isabel McSwan, Lachlan Hamilton, Tyler Gordan, Stevie Ray Simiana, Tahlia Connelly, Bailey Pearson, Mikinleigh Bullock, Jaxon Worthington, Kiara Perry, Jack Meyer, Seth Anderson, Taj Giggins, Shakira Snedden, Georgie Salmon, Ruby Battye, Jessica Kelly, Charlee Sheather, Dexter McMahon, Lochlan Egan, Stella L, Naysha Hynard, Alex Dunn, Anja Dyer, Meg Amos, Taylor Ball, Rylee Kroehnert, Elleigh Oxenbridge, Gemma Nicholson, Oscar Van Ash, Addison Brown, Emily Loy, Emily Robertson, Arafura Elliott Miles, Sophie-Lee Watson, Damian L, Lucas McCann, Kaiden Grainger, Ethen Henderson, Shilah O’Davis, Emilie Patterson, Saphy Sinclair, Clover Staader, Cadence Wilkinson-Byrnes, Eva Newan, Jayden Fielden, Alan Haynes, Noah Narayan, Khye McDonald, Ella McNee, Jaylin Mundine Rafferty, Lily Vidler, Dean Brown, Riley Stanton, Zoe Bailey, Ava Tattis, Farrah Slis, Sienna Caple, Teya-Rae Sweeting, Lemeki Kurimalawai, Lani Crispe, Jailon Donohoe, Andrew Hughes, Zara McKenzie, Joshua Crapp, Charles Jeffery, Casey Palmer, Alanna Burchell, Lachlan Cameron, Isaiah Wirght, Chantel Fisher, Riley Dawson, Raymond Casbolt, Emily Henderson, Zaine Ashdown, Jaleb Kyle-Robinson, Ethan Brierley, Tallara Taylor, Janalli Fernando, Hobie Gaddes, Nicholas Shorrock, Matthew Winmill, Cassidi Hallam

Monday 19th - 30th Nov Stage 2 Swimming Friday 23rd Nov Prefect Nomination Speeches Tuesday 27th Nov Kindergarten 2019 Orientation Wednesday 28th Nov Canteen Volunteer Luncheon Thursday 29th Nov Year 6 Stellar Lismore Uni Monday 3rd Dec Assembly of Appreciation Tuesday 4th Dec Year 6 into Year 7 2019 Transition South Grafton HS Wednesday 5th Dec Carols on the Green Primary Silver Badge Thursday 6th Dec Infants Silver Badge Monday 10th Dec Year 6 Farewell Infants Gold Badge Tuesday 11th Dec Infants Rewards Day Primary Gold Badge Wednesday 12th Dec Reports home Thursday 13th Dec Presentation Day Friday 14th Dec Primary Rewards Day Wednesday 19th Dec Last Day of Term 4 Wednesday 23rd Jan Uniform Shop open 9.00am- 12noon Tuesday 29th Jan Staff return Wednesday 30th Jan Students Year 1 – Year 6 return Thursday 31st Jan Kindergarten students start

PRIMARY Monday Kerrie Martin, HELP NEEDED Tuesday Sam Pol, HELP NEEDED Wednesday Denise Kokkin, HELP NEEDED Thursday Belinda Wormald, HELP NEEDED Friday Normal Purnell, Denise Kokkin INFANTS Monday Rhonda King, HELP NEEDED Tuesday Kerri Martin, Sam Lowe Wednesday Kerri Martin, HELP NEEDED Thursday Rhonda King, Denise Kokkin Friday Sam Pol, HELP NEEDED

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